Make Development Teams Leaner and Improve Time-to-Release In Five Steps
Make Development Teams Leaner and Improve Time-to-Release In Five Steps
Drive down your delivery time by removing your development inefficiencies and bottlenecks while maintaining high quality.
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Without a holistic and precise view of your application development process:
Motivations behind your lean transformation may be misunderstood or misrepresented in other areas of your organization.
Optimization initiatives may introduce downstream or upstream issues which can generate additional bottlenecks.
Development processes can be shortsighted and structured to only address current short-term needs.
Following well-defined, understood, and standardized lean development guidelines in your process optimization will:
Focus your development initiatives on a grounded and collaborated set of guiding principles to ensure teams are striving towards the same business and development goals.
Eliminate the key areas in your process that are driving up wait and execution times, and only implement the practices that strive towards lower delivery time while maintaining high quality.
Emphasize the continuous improvement of your development teams, processes, and tools so that they always fit with your current context using lessons learned.
Module 1: Conduct a Current State Analysis
The Purpose
Assess the current state of your development environment.
Select a pilot project to demonstrate the value of your optimization.
Key Benefits Achieved
Realization of the root causes behind the bottlenecks and inefficiencies in your current development process.
Valuation of your current development tools.
Selection of a pilot project that will be used to gather the metrics in order obtain buy-in for wider optimization initiatives.
Activities:
Outputs:
1.1
Assess your readiness to transition to lean development.
Lean development readiness assessment
1.2
Conduct a SWOT analysis and value-stream assessment of your current development process.
Current state analysis of development process
1.3
Evaluate your development tools.
Value assessment of existing development tools
1.4
Select a pilot project.
Pilot project selection
Module 2: Define Your Lean Future State
The Purpose
Establish your development guiding principles.
Enhance the versioning and management of your development artifacts.
Automatically build and continuously integrate your code.
Key Benefits Achieved
Grounded and well-understood set of guiding principles that are mapped to development tasks and initiatives.
Version control strategy of development artifacts, including source code, adapted to support lean development.
A tailored approach to establish the right environment to support automated build, testing, and continuous integration tools.
Activities:
Outputs:
2.1
Assess your alignment to the seven lean principles.
Level of alignment to lean principles
2.2
Define your development guiding principles.
Tailored list of development guiding principles
2.3
Define your version control and source code repository architecture pattern.
Version control and source code management strategy
2.4
See how build automation and continuous integration will fit.
Scope of effort to prepare current development environment for build automation and continuous integration
2.5
Optimize and align your build process to lean principles.
Optimized build process
Module 3: Create Your Implementation Roadmap
The Purpose
Prioritize your optimization initiatives to build an implementation roadmap.
Identify the stakeholders of your lean transformation.
Key Benefits Achieved
Phased implementation roadmap that accommodates your current priorities, constraints, and enablers.
Stakeholder engagement strategy to effectively demonstrate the value of the optimized development environment.
Activities:
Outputs:
3.1
Identify metrics to gauge the success of your lean transformation.
List of product, process, and tool metrics
3.2
List and prioritize your implementation steps.
Prioritized list of tasks to optimize your development environment
3.3
Identify the stakeholders of your lean transformation.
Identification of key stakeholders
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
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